General News Summary July 20, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, JULY 20, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 17.

Italian fleet visits England.

Sir Henry Parkes' wife dies.

Brazil borrows £6,000,000 in London.

Big Orange demonstration in Sydney.

Running streams in N.S.W. frozen over.

Queensland honey up for sale in London.

Patrick Newman drowned at Bundaberg.

Victorian farmers threatening to emigrate.

Boiler explosion at Bulli causes two deaths.

New State school to be erected at Wynnum.

Frost in N.S.W. does much damage to crops.

Labrador Hotel, Southport, destroyed by fire.

Ross River Meat Works working night and day.

General election campaign in N.S.W. in full swing.

Two jockeys killed at the Moree Picnic Races.

Mrs. Costello burned to death at Araluen, N.S.W.

Sydney express train runs into a mob of Bullocks.

Turkey restores a portion of territory to Bulgaria.

An old woman of 63 stabbed by a madman in Melbourne.

Rabbits reported to be attacking Hammond Downs station.

W. Hayne run over by a train at Toorak, Vic, and killed.

Outbreak of redwater disease amongst cattle at Torren's Creek.

A little seven-year-old girl at Omaru , N.Z., is burned to death.

American wheat crop reported to be 14 per cent below last year.

Forty workmen killed at the building of a new bridge in Egypt.

Orient steamer Lusitania arrives at Adelaide with smallpox on board.

New rich discoveries of gold reefs reported from Bower Bird Creek.

John Currie falls from a height of 60ft.. in Melbourne, and is killed.

F. J. Murray, police inspector, files his schedule, liabilities £9646.

A ten-year-old half-caste girl killed by a blackfellow at Barcaldine.

French residents in Sydney celebrate the destruction of the bastille.

Great excitement in Canada over denominational subsidy to schools.

A lady named Brown fined £100 at Walgett, N.S.W., for sly grog selling.

Good prices for Australian wool still continues in the London market.

A Melbourne madman commits suicide by jumping into the river Yarra.

Christopher Moeller falls overboard in the Fitzroy River and is drowned.

A little girl at Milthorpe, N.S.W., dies from the effects of excessive skipping.

The late Premier of Bulgaria is attacked and fatally wounded by four assassins.

Chairman of a divisional board committed for trial on a charge of defamation.

Large consignment of alleged brandy seized in Melbourne as unfit for drinking.

South Australian Treasury paymaster arrested on a charge of embezzlement.

New Zealand Premier informs a deputation that he is against land nationalisation.

Two hundred and fifty pounds worth of gold specimens stolen from a Croydon claim.

James Johnston accidently shot in the back by his brother at Queenbeyan.

Railway accident in the Argentine Republic, fifteen persons killed and thirty injured.

A Sydney barque on a voyage to Glasgow puts into Wellington in a leaky condition.

Another conspiracy against the Czar of Russia reported as having been discovered.

Five children seriously burned at Rockhampton through playing with gunpowder.

German officer sentenced to four years in gaol for selling German fuses to French agents.

Disastrous railway collision near Quebec. Thirteen persons killed and forty-nine injured.

A clergyman meets with a terrible accident at Parramatta through trying to enter a moving train.

Michael Davitt issues an appeal to the friends of the Irish Home Rule cause in Australia.

Murdoch and Co. fined £1000 for smuggling jewellery, also £750 worth of their goods forfeited.

MICHAEL DAVITT elected unopposed to represent Kerry in the next Parliament of Great Britain.

Terrible cyclone in New Jersey. Forty-four persons seriously injured and over 100 houses wrecked.

All French servants at the British Embassy, Paris, dismissed on account of suspected espionage.

John Daley, Irish ex-M.P., seriously injured in Sydney through attempting to enter a moving train.

Public funeral in Melbourne to superintendent fire brigade who was killed whilst performing his duty.

Leonard Harper, Christchurch solicitor, remanded in London on a charge of fraud, involving £13,000.

Serious conflict in the island of Formosa between Japanese and Chinese. Two hundred of the latter killed.

Albert medal conferred on Hereward Hewison for rescuing his brother from the jaws of a shark at Newcastle.

John Daly, recently released from from prison as an Irish dynamiter, is returned M.P. For Limerick unopposed.

Conflict between peasantry and Turkish troops on the island of Crete, in which the soldiers were defeated.

Frank Tinyani, a Manilla man, committed for trial at Thursday Island on a charge of murdering a policeman.

Five hundred pounds subscribed in Melbourne for the Irish Parliamentary Party in response to Davitt's appeal.

Bulgarian Premier instructs magistrates to prevent public sympathy with the people of Macedonia under Turkish rule.

AIDOM, railway contractor, claims £200,800 from N.S.W. railway contractor. Arbitration referee awards him only £2681. 5s.

German fleet assembles at Tangier to enforce an indemnity from the Government of Morocco for the murder of a German subject.

Thomas and Augustus Stapleton committed for trial at Roma on a charge of stealing a mob of cattle belonging to Jimmy Tyson.

Italian Chamber of Deputies ignores the request of the Vatican to declare the anniversary of the Freedom of Rome a national Holiday. 

At large meetings of Canadian Orangemen resolution were carried to resist with their blood and lives the granting of separate schools to Roman Catholics.